Graduate Students Ming Gan, Hongsuk Lee and Devendra Verma Receive NSF Fellowships

Graduate Students Ming Gan, Hongsuk Lee and Devendra Verma have been awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Ming Gan, Hongsuk Lee and Devendra Verma in the Interfacial Multiphysics Lab directed by Dr. Vikas Tomar have been awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to attend the Materials Genome Short Course from June 10-June 12 in Evanston, IL. The workshop focuses on developing advanced materials using state of the art multiscale models. click here for the link

Dr. Tomar’s group has been working on new microstructure dependent 2D and 3D fracture models using variants of the Cohesive Finite Element Method (CFEM) and Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) based on in-lab codes incorporating ab-initio studies based on quantum mechanical simulations combined with multiscale atomistic models (Equivalent Crystal Method, Hybrid Monte Carlo Method developed in his lab). These models have shown promising experimentally verified results for failure in polymer composites, ceramics, and metals. This summer Dr. Tomar plans to float a part of these codes for commercial and academic use in a startup and in Composite-Hub being promoted by Dr. Byron Pipes.

The selection to fellowship award is extremely competitive with about 10% of the applying students getting awarded. It is expected that both Ming, Hongsuk and Devendra will use the knowledge to further multiscale material genomic work in Interfacial Multiphysics Lab.

 

Photo caption top to bottom ~ Ming Gan  ~ Hongsuk Lee ~ Devendra Verma